About

The infamously reclusive Teddy Wang, tycoon of the Orient and Time Magazine's "China Entrepreneur"

five years running, had fallen into seclusion. From his estate on one of the outlying Hong Kong islands,

the dashing young businessman had taken to conducting business exclusively through his timid assistant

Roger, a meekrat of a man who spent his days shuffling papers for the reclusive industrial magnate. And

yet despite their mutual dependence no-one had ever seen the two of them together at the same time....

Join us in today's Chinese lesson as we cover a few useful phrases and pleasantries you can use right

away in business meetings. Even if you can't conduct a whole meeting in Chinese (yet), once you're

done with this lesson you'll know how to give face to your Chinese guest by inviting them to come in

and sit down. We've also enabled our Speaking Practice hotline for this lesson, so if you're a premium

subscriber don't forget to give us a call and get one-on-one feedback on your pronunciation.